Lubbock’s white Christmas was to be followed by a bitter, cold night, but the region should start to warm up later today, but driving conditions could still be difficult.

"Street department crews will be working overnight to spread salt and magnesium chloride on city streets. Overnight lows are expected in the teens, creating potentially dangerous driving conditions. Please use extreme caution when driving tomorrow morning and give yourself extra time to reach your destination," said a posting on the City of Lubbock's Facebook page.

Meteorologist Ron McQueen of the National Weather Service’s Lubbock office said, “We’re going to see many single digits up on the Caprock. Any snow or ice on the roads is likely to stay on the roads.”

He also said wind chill levels were to drop to between 5 below and 10 below zero Tuesday night.

“Friona through Dimmitt, over toward Tulia, down to Littlefield and Muleshoe, that’s where we feel the greatest risk for the lowest wind chills will be,” he said. “Through midnight, after that the winds will drop off. It will be quite cold but without the winds.”

A fast-moving upper-level storm system brought in a band of moderate snowfall Monday evening through early Christmas Day, providing amounts from a trace across the Rolling Plains to a half-inch across the northwestern South Plains and the southwestern Panhandle.

“It seems like it’s mostly to the south side of (Lubbock),” meteorologist Brad Charboneau said Tuesday. “We had a real narrow band come in from the south and east. The bulk of the accumulation is already through.”

With most businesses closed for the holiday, traffic was light but the Lubbock Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety officers were working several morning wrecks.

“We’ve just got a few little crashes, some slick spots, but nothing major,” a TxDot representative said.

TxDot said one vehicle ran off the road north of Tahoka on U.S. 87. Other incidents were in Hale County, Terry County and Lubbock County, but none involved serious injuries.

“It’s snowing and it’s cold and the wind’s blowing,” a Plainview Police Department representative said, but he also said, “It’s kind of quiet.”

The Lubbock Police Department was responding to several wrecks spread out on Loop 289 and one on Interstate 27, again with no serious injuries reported.

Lubbock city spokesman Jeff McKito said the city had six road crews working Tuesday morning to improve road conditions at major intersections and major streets.

“The city uses either salt or magnesium chloride on road, depending on if the road is asphalt or concrete,” McKito said in an email.

At Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, flights were not canceled because there was no accumulation of snow, just blowing snow, a representative said.

Lubbock Power & Light also said that the snow had not caused any reports of power outages.

“We don’t have anything going on right now,” a representative said.

A Lubbock Fire Department representative also said “everything’s quiet.”

The forecast through the weekend is for mostly sunny days with highs from 45 to 50 degrees and overnight lows in 20s.